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MT pay versus what Nuance charges per line for hospital reports - Saphyre

Posted: Jun 07, 2014

Does anyone know or maybe even make an educated guess...how much a hospital might pay per line to have Nuance do their reports? We are guessing somewhere .12 to .15 upwards to .20/line. Of course they are claiming that this will save them all sorts of money and we'd like to know if they are really going to save as much as they think they are. Oh...and did I mention that Nuance said they wouldn't be sending anything to anyone who didn't speak English outside of the US? *insert laughter here* Does Nuance sign contracts with that in it or is that their standard line?

On a completely different note - are there any companies who hire for strictly radiology, pathology or autopsies that anyone has heard about?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated :)

I could not guess, but - Poor as can be

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I would guess that when VR started and we were told they needed to be competitive (implying they were charging the hospitals less for the work), that they just cut our pay and charge the same amount for the work, regardless if it is straight type or VR.

I used to charge just under 1 cent per WORD when I had private accounts...so I would guess that 20 cents a line is probably close.

The VA account I worked paid 21 cpl - Bigs exploit MTs

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Do American MTs a favor and do not work for the N and M pariah maggots who are actively pursuing ways to annihilate MTs while still charging the he$$ out of healthcare systems.

My theory is Nuance is competitive and - under bids other companies

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Nuance pays us way low as a result but there is Nuance money to be made on headers, signatures, dates, etc, that we do not get paid for and the hospital gets charged for.

I do not know this for sure but a company has to bid to get a hospital contract to do their dictation and hospitals usually go with the lowest bidder.

believe it or not - Snow Bunny (the original)

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About 12-13 cpl. I kid you not.

I know this for a fact: - In 1996, our clinic

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was charged $20,000 a month for dictation by our staff of 35 physicians. This was by MRC, later bought out by MedQuist. I was shown the actual bills, several months in a row. There were 4 MTs making $10 an hour that were displaced. The clinic decided they couldn't afford that - ummm, duh - and started using a paper version of point-and-click.

VA work - Transgal

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Some honest insight - I had an MT company for 20 years and had a VA contract for 7. Nuance probably - though I have no direct specific knowledge - does not have VA work because the VA hires U.S., female-owned, minority-owned or veteran-owned companies - it's a requirement to even bid. All of the vendor's work must be done in the U.S. - not just the VA work. It was in the contract and we were audited a couple of times over those 7 years to ensure compliance. Also, the VA takes the lowest bidder. As a service owner, the price per line over the years has gotten tighter and lower in both the private and government sectors. A friend who is the director of transcription at a Chicago-area hospital is in the middle of the bidding process and is looking at nothing higher than .13/line. That was my first-year VA contract price in 1990!!!

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